Towards a flexible functional split for cloud-RAN networks

EuCNC 2014 - European Conference on Networks and Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Maeder, Andreas ^a   Lalam, Massissa ^b   De Domenico, Antonio ^c   Pateromichelakis, Emmanouil ^d   Wubben, Dirk ^e   Bartelt, Jens ^f   Fritzsche, Richard ^f   Rost, Peter ^a  

^a NEC LABORATORIES EUROPE   (Germany)

^b Sagemcom Broadband ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c CEA LETI   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^f DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

5G; backhaul; Cloud RAN; functional split; LTE

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

5G; BACKHAUL; FUNCTIONAL SPLIT; INTERCELL INTERFERENCE; LTE; SMALL CELLS;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 84906968860     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EuCNC.2014.6882691     Document Type: Conference Paper

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